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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">
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<article>
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<articleinfo>
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<title>Shorewall Release Model</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Tom</firstname>
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<surname>Eastep</surname>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2004</year>
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<year>2005</year>
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<year>2006</year>
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<year>2007</year>
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<year>2008</year>
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<year>2009</year>
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<year>2010</year>
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<year>2012</year>
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<year>2013</year>
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<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
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1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
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no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
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Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
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License</ulink></quote>.</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</articleinfo>
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<section id="Releases">
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<title>Shorewall Releases</title>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Releases have a three-level identification
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<firstterm>x.y.z</firstterm> (e.g., 4.5.0).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The first two levels (<emphasis>x.y</emphasis>) designate the
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<firstterm>major release number</firstterm> (e.g., 4.5).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The third level (<emphasis>y</emphasis>) designates the
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<firstterm>minor release Number</firstterm>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Installing a new minor release involves no migration issues
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unless you want to take advantage of an enhancement. For example, if
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you are running 4.5.0 and I release 4.5.1, your current configuration
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is 100% compatible with the new release.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>A major release may have migration issues. These are listed in
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the release notes and on the <ulink url="upgrade_issues.htm">upgrade
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issues page</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Support is available through the <ulink
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url="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=22587">Mailing List</ulink>
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for the most recent Major Release.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>After the introduction of a new major release, support is still
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available for the prior major release until the principle
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distributions have upgraded to that new release. Fixes will only be
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provided for the last minor release in the previous Major Release. For
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example, once 4.5.0 was released, the only fixes for major issues with
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4.4.27 would be released for the 4.4 series.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Support for the prior major release ends once the major Linux
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distributions have upgraded to that release. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Once a minor release has been announced, work begins on the next
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minor release. Periodic Beta releases are made available through
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announcements on the Shorewall Development and Shorewall User mailing
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lists. Those Beta releases are numberd w.x.y-Beta1, ...Beta2, etc.
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Support for the Beta releases is offered through the Shorewall
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Development mailing list in the form of emailed patches. There is no
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guarantee of compatability between one Beta release and the next as
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features are tweaked.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>When the next minor release is functionally complete, one or
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more <firstterm>release candidates</firstterm> are announced on the
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Shorewall Development and Shorewall User mailing lists. These release
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candidates are numbered w.x.y-RC1, ...-RC2, etc.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>What does it mean for a major release to be
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<firstterm>supported</firstterm>? It means that that if a bug is
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found, we will fix the bug and include the fix in the next minor
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release.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Between minor releases, bug fixes are made available via
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<firstterm>patch releases</firstterm>. A patch release has a
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four-level identification <emphasis>x.y.z.N</emphasis> where x.y.z is
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the minor release being fixed and N = 1.2.3...</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>The currently-supported major release 4.5.</para>
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</section>
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</article>
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